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A dog was found dead in a plane after a United Airlines flight attendant forced the dog into an overhead bin, according to The New York Post. A passenger on a flight from Houston to New York’s LaGuardia Airport, uploaded a photo of the dog’s owners on Twitter.

Four family members have been shot and killed in Brooklyn, police said Wednesday. The incident happened at the end of a cul-de-sac on Thatford Avenue, near Riverdale Avenue, police confirmed around 6:40 a.m.

Police in New York have charged a woman after her 9-month-old baby was found crawling through the middle of a busy street. Police in Utica became aware of the incident after a video posted to Facebook went viral. The post racked up more than one million views in the first 12 hours after it was published.

A New York City police officer is being hailed as a hero after his quick thinking saved a man trapped in a burning car on Long Island. Jason Bernfeld was driving to work on the Northern State Parkway at Route 110 when he noticed a car down an embankment.

The pilot in the Manhattan helicopter crash that killed all five passengers has been treated and released from hospital, authorities say. Richard "Rick" Vance, 33, told authorities that he believed he had engine failure.

An upstate New York college student charged with helping her father kill her mother has agreed to testify against him as a part of a plea deal. Karrie Neurauter says she drove her father to her mother's home in Corning last year and distracted a younger sibling while he strangled his ex-wife, 46-year-old Michele Neurauter. She then helped him make the scene look like a suicide and lied to police.

Two children and a man were killed late Saturday in a fire that ripped through an Elmira residence. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire. Samuel L. Sheridan, 29, Trinity M Sheridan, 5 and Omar C Sheridan, 6, were identified Sunday as the victims of the fire at 203 Home St., Elmira police said. The alarm sounded around 11 p.m., when emergency responders converged on the scene

Police in upstate New York have arrested a woman after her 9-month-old baby was found crawling in a busy roadway. Utica Police Department Lt. Bryan Coromato tells the Observer-Dispatch on Saturday officers saw a video on Facebook of the infant alone in the street Friday night.